Putting your ideas into a framework

In Reply to: A few things that will help posted by (repost from Krisi) on April 22, 2002 at 20:15:11:

I reckon we can go to work on this stuff, and start building these resources and answering these questions.

Would it look something like this?


TIPS FOR DEPARTEES:

• Do pay taxes
  
  • you can do them by mail, or e-mail
    
  • most of the time you will use the w1040 form
• Driving skills
  • How to get a license
  • learning to drive
    
• When going for job interviews
  
  • ask about health benifits and 401K
    
    • explanation needed for the benifits of having benifits
      
  • what you can use from being in the family to put on a resume
    
    • PR work
      
    • Teaching
      
    • Volunteer work
      
• Girls should get a pap smear
  
  • explanation needed for why it is so important for all women especially those who have never had one
    
  • list of free clinics
    
    • Planned Paraenthood
      
    • other state run clinics for women and children
      
• Parenting Classes
  
  • amazingly insightful for parents who are leaving the COG and feel incapable as paraents
    
• List/examples of state funded college programs for single parents
  
• Reading list
  
  • a little more insight about other cults
    
    • demonstrate that the COG hasn't cornered the market on outlandish behavior and far out religion
• Common concerns when leaving the family
  
  • I will never fit in to society
    
  • I am too special
    
    • going to school and finding out that you are not so different at all
      
  • I am raised too differently from any one else in the "system"
    
  • Will I become a slave to the system?
    
  • Will my motivation and my spirit shrivel up and die?
    
  
  
• Some good testimonials
  
  • what it was like when you first left
    
    • nothing too one sided, because when people first leave the last thing they need is for some one else to
      convince them of a certain way to feel about life
      
    • first job interviews
      
    • finding out where you fit in in the "system"
      
    • what kind of things you found made sense to you
      
      • type of job
        
      • school
        
      • area of study
        
  • What have you found to live for "out here"?
    
    • life is what you make it
      
    • share some of those things that make life really worth it
      
  • Why life is better outside the family
    
  • The beauty of accomplishing things in your life
    
    
  • Kristi: How to grow spiritually
    
    • become the master of your own fate
      
    • cultivate your desires until they finally become goals
      
    • set out to acomplished them
      
    • the best spiritual experience is to allow your spirit to really grow
      
      • "Then I started to become someone, someone who didn't need a leader or shepherd to tell me what to eat, who to sleep with and how to wipe my ass"
        
      • "Before I cultivated any desires that I had I couldn't even order off a menu in a resteruant, my dad took me out shopping and some one else had to pick every thing out, I was clueless"